Epic battles between believers and sceptics can make for gripping cinema, and at least this one has a visually inventive director in Oscar-winning cinematographer Kaminski. The film looks fantastic, even if all the whizzy camera work and slo-mo effects aren't strictly necessary. At least the creepy angles, grainy colour scheme and streaming shafts of light keep us watching while the story gets increasingly silly and pedestrian. Ryder is fine in the internally anguished role; Chaplin is once again better than the film he's starring in; and the fine supporting cast lends the movie a lot more credibility than the script deserves. But aside from the impressive imagery and dodgy hocus-pocus mythology, Kaminski knows that the best jolts come from the most obvious place: things that go bump in the dark.